The ballroom still hosted people with expensive clothes and important titles.
But Ethan knew the hotel’s real standard had been measured the night before by something much smaller: a tired child, a wilted bouquet, an overlooked reservation and one housekeeper who refused to walk past someone who needed help.
That was the standard he intended to keep.
Not how employees treated the owner once they recognized him.
How they treated the person they believed would never matter.
